One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.